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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2006/tc20060123_227536.htm Video blogs are a case in point. Over the past year, thousands of video versions of the increasingly popular Web logs, or blogs, have sprung up online. Those looking to make money from their efforts are turning to a series format. The Rocketboom video blog helped pioneer this model, dishing up a three-minute newscast spoof five days a week (see BW, 9/5/05, "Rocketboom's Powerful Lift-Off"). Now, Rocketboom has a daily audience of 130,000 viewers and is distributed via TiVo, which can now be used to watch Web videos on TV. NETWORK NEWS. Other series range from reports by techie blog Engadget to Carp Caviar, an eclectic variety of animation, archived footage, and cultural commentary. A standout is Ask a Ninja. After watching the success of Tiki Bar and Rocketboom, Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine turned the information they had gathered about Ninjas for an animation project into Ask a Ninja. Launched after Thanksgiving, the series features a black-clad Ninja who provides tongue-in-cheek responses to viewers' questions about Ninja lore. It's attracted an audience of 25,000 people. Nichols says the two expect to make money from packaging DVDs of short shows and advertising, as it evolves. --------------------------------------------------------------- WWWhatsup NYC http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
